Quotes About Clarity

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

There is no virtue in being on the same page if it's the wrong page.

the clearest view is always from the bottom. Kennedy

childhood memories are prisms, not panes of glass. Details may loom large in the eyes of our smaller selves, while important events lie beyond our vision or understanding.

there is no better moment in life than finding the right word.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good." Somerset Maugham.

He let in the light.

The truth is always the best approach when saying no. Keep it simple. People don't need to hear your sob story. A five-minute exposition about your busy life, your demanding mother, or your clinging children isn't the most effective approach. That may be the truth, but you've given too much information, and your listener tuned out four minutes ago.

If decision making taxes our self-regulation, then an easy response is to minimize decisions before tackling something we've been procrastinating.

Choose truth, start serving your interest.

Falsity feels great until you meet the truth.

Nothing beats a combination of self-belief and truth.

Speaking the truth is better than speaking one's mind.

The best advice there is, Shun falsity, embrace the truth.

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.

There is always an easier honest path.

Truth is the most valuable secret.

Truth is the power used to reach success.

Truth, the least desired thing, is the most desirable.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

There is a story told of a little blind girl who had five brothers. The brothers, trusting their senses, went out into the world and lost their way, while the little girl, unable to trust her senses, wove a thread of gold. Attaching one end to her finger, she tied the other to the sun and never lost her way. You, too, can learn to trust the light of consciousness by holding onto the thread that is your aim and not allowing yourself to become enmeshed in the evidence of your senses.

There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man vacillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.